2026.10: You are here 📍

Home Assistant 2026.10! 🎉 Last week, Nabu Casa dropped: Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we’re renaming ours. Home Assistant Cloud is on its way to becoming Home Assistant Link. Same service, new name. I love that title, by the way. If you haven’t read the story behind it yet, go have a look, and tell us what you think. The change is planned for the December release, so there is still time. 🏎️ Now, I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m an automation person. Dashboards are lovely and I admire everyone who builds a pretty one, but for me, automationsAutomations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen in and around your home. [Learn more] are what make a smart home actually smart. So you can imagine how happy I am with what’s in this release. One of the most powerful features you never thought you’d need has been sitting in Home Assistant for years: trigger IDs. Give your triggersA trigger is the part of an automation that makes the automation start when something specific happens, for example, when the sun sets, a door opens, or a button is pressed. [Learn more] an ID, and one automation can do the job of two, three, or five. It was also tucked away in a menu, you had to invent the IDs yourself, and then remember which was which. Plenty of you never found it, and that’s on us. Not anymore. Trigger IDs finally get a proper UI: you check the triggers you want in the condition, and Home Assistant takes care of the IDs behind the scenes. And if you like writing your own IDs in YAMLYAML is a human-readable data serialization language. It is used to store and transmit data in a structured format. In Home Assistant, YAML is used for configuration, for example in the configuration.yaml or automations.yaml files. [Learn more], nothing changes. Those keep working exactly as before. That makes it my favorite of this release. 🧠 Don’t get me wrong, the map is absolutely a cool feature too. Last release, every map in Home Assistant broke overnight when our map provider wanted an API key. We moved to OpenStreetMap, and it turns out that swapping out the map opens a lot of doors: a vector map that stays sharp at every zoom level, redesigned markers, and an overview of where everyone has been. You are here. 📍 There’s more: a tidier profile page, a panel for your Modbus connections, connecting your AI in one click, and 15 new integrationsIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more]! 🚀 Enjoy the release! ../Frenck Cloud becomes Link A whole new map Crisp at every zoom level Redesigned markers An overview for the Map dashboard Zones on the new map A tidier profile page The best automation feature you never used Integrations New integrations Noteworthy improvements to existing integrations Integration quality scale achievements Now available to set up from the UI Farewell to the following Other noteworthy changes Show a card only when it matters A panel for your Modbus connections Connect your AI in one click Name an entity after its device Timers, one tap away Patch releases 2026.10.1 - October 10 2026.10.2 - October 16 Need help? Join the community Backward-incompatible changes All changes A huge thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible! And a special shout-out to @googanhiem and @piitaya who helped write these release notes. Also, @grischard, @moryoav, and @RaHehl for putting effort into tweaking its contents. Thanks to them, these release notes are in great shape. ❤️ Cloud becomes Link In case you missed it, we’re making the move to rename Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Same service, new name. We’re all pretty annoyed by how Big Tech has been ruining perfectly good smart home devices by making them reliant on the cloud. Ours has never locked anyone in, harvested their data, or turned working devices into e-waste, so a new name was in order. Home Assistant Link is all about being clearer that it does things differently. The change is planned for the December release, so tell us your thoughts before then. The best link is a fast link. 🏎️ Nabu Casa has been hard at work making remote access even faster across the globe. They recently migrated all of their servers to bare metal and added more servers to boost their coverage of the world. This month, they added a latency checker that pings multiple servers on boot and picks the best connection for you. A whole new map Last release, something changed underneath every map in Home Assistant, and we barely mentioned it in the release notes. The map provider we relied on started stamping an “API key required” message across its map images, breaking every map in Home Assistant at once. Instead of hunting for another free tile provider, we switched from pre-rendered map images to vector tiles generated and served by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Both maps use OpenStreetMap data, but your device now draws the map itself. The new Map tiles integration fetches

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